The Seattle City Council voted unanimously on Tuesday to mandate paid ... gig workers. For food delivery drivers previously covered by the temporary pandemic sick leave measure, the new law ...
making Seattle the first U.S. city to require companies to provide paid sick leave for food-delivery and other on-demand, app-based gig economy workers. “Regardless of work environment ...
The Seattle City ... restaurants and gig workers who report a loss of income as a result of the new rules. The PayUp law ...
I have gone into work sick, sneezing and coughing because I can’t afford it. (My coworkers and I) are minimum-wage workers who can’t afford to miss work.” — Amber, food service worker without paid ...
But workers are pushing back. At a recent committee meeting, Uber Eats driver Kyle Graham reminded the council that a decade ago Seattle was ... Graham said. The law, which only went into effect ...
Some gig workers in and around Seattle are traveling miles more than normal to deliver groceries and takeout food as the companies they work for try to avoid the city's new pay law. Seattle's ...
While the algorithms that do so much to prod and cajole gig workers are undoubtedly important ... tend to view gig work negatively and as a low-paid trap that they're desperate to get out of.
HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Connecticut's first-in-the-nation paid sick leave law from 2011 moved closer Wednesday to being updated, requiring all employers, down to those with a single worker, to ...
What are the arguments for and against expanding the paid sick leave law? Proponents of the bill argue that both employers and employees benefit from paid sick leave, with a study from the ...
Instituting country-wide sick-leave ... numbers of paid sick days. For everyone else, coverage is scattershot. Roughly half of Canadian workers don’t have sick days—including gig workers ...